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Now focus shifts to Anantnag, Shopian districts 12/10/2014 11:49:16 PM Bashir Assad Early Times Report Srinagar, Dec10; After an uneventful three phases of elections, the focus has now shifted to south Kashmir's Anantnag and Shopian districts which go to polls in the next phase on December 14. Though 8 seats of Srinagar district will also go to polls on December14, the campaigning in Anantnag and Shopian districts is at its peak. With nearly 200 candidates in the fray, the 8 constituencies of Anantnag and Shopian will decide the fate of among others the former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, senior congress leaders and ministers in Omar Abdullah government, Peerzada Muhammad Sayed and Ghulam Ahmad Mir, senior PDP leaders Rafi Ahmad Mir, Peerzada Mansur, Abdul Rehman Veeri. Interestingly no prominent figure of NC is in the fray as its only face Dr. Mehboob Beg rejected the mandate of the party from Anantnag constituency and is supporting PDP Patron Mufti Muhammad Sayed. This time PDP is on high moral ground in twin districts as South Kashmir is considered to be its stronghold. It emerged victorious in electoral battle for the first time in 2002 and sprang a surprise by making a mark within three years of its formation. It wiped out the NC from South Kashmir in 2008 which could get only one seat of Noorabad . While Mufti himself is contesting from Anantnag segment, Rehman Veeri is contesting from Bijbehara, Rafi Mir from Pahalgam and Peerzada Mannsur from Shangus. For Sayeed, the game is one sided in Anantnag. He organized major road shows in the constituency in the past few days . NC president Omar Abdullah campaigned vigorously against the PDP in South Kashmir. Mufti and Omar are scheduled to address a series of election rallies in Anantnag and Shopian in next two days to woo the voters. Encouraged by the high voter out in the last three phases, people in Anantnag and Shopian districts are like to participate in the adult franchise massively on December14. Meanwhile Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Wednesday said Congress and National Conference are to be equally blamed for landing Jammu and Kashmir in one of the worst governance crisis of its history. "It was because of Congress abandoning its inclusive agenda at the national level and its ministers indulging in open loot and frauds in the state that space for emergence of BJP was created in J&K," Mufti said while addressing an election rally in Dooru assembly segment of this south Kashmir district. Mufti said ideologically Congress never tried to rise up to the BJP but instead made compromise after compromise to seek survival in power which ultimately demolished it at the national level and in the state it was reduced to hand-maiden of Omar Abdullah. "Omar on the strength of his friendship with Rahul Gandhi had his way on all matters without being able to do anything constructive for the state," he said.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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